Naples authorities refuse a public send-off for the convicted murderer known as Lady CamorraNo crowds attended the cortege for Assunta Maresca, better known as Pupetta Maresca, who died at home this week in Castellammare di Stabia aged 86. Maresca, a c…
The mafia killed Alessandra Clemente’s mother. Now she wants to take them on as mayor of Naples
Alessandra Clemente’s plan to end the cycle of violence relies on winning over the mothers and wives of the Camorra mobstersOn 11 June 1997, a 10-year-old girl named Alessandra Clemente heard 41 gunshots from an open window at her home in Naples, as sh…
Reputed mafia ‘godmother’ arrested at Rome airport
Prosecutors allege Maria Licciardi, 70, ran extortion rackets as head of Naples-based Camorra crime syndicateA reputed top Naples crime syndicate boss was arrested as she was about to board a flight to Spain, Italian authorities said.The interior minis…
Reputed mafia ‘godmother’ arrested at Rome airport
Prosecutors allege Maria Licciardi, 70, ran extortion rackets as head of Naples-based Camorra crime syndicateA reputed top Naples crime syndicate boss was arrested as she was about to board a flight to Spain, Italian authorities said.The interior minis…
Buried in concrete: mafia architecture – in pictures
Alessio Mamo has photographed the illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas in the south of Italy that mafia bosses constructedWords by Roberto Saviano and Lorenzo TondoRead more on how the mafia made a killing from the destruction o…